For those of you who still drive, here's a page about traffic jams and how to erase them: http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html It just makes me glad...
INTRODUCTORY PROFILE 1. I own a car but use a bicycle frequently. 2. How long have you been either car-free or used non-automotive transport as your principle...
And it totally misses the point: building a better car is not the solution. The solution is to get rid of the car. Electric cars reduce oil consumption, but do...
... Worse is that of the EV's true potential to extend the destruction of the current car culture beyond the supply of cheap oil and onto another fossil fuel-...
Well said, Wes, and I'm in total agreement. The earth cannot sustain the personal automobile and the associated infrastructure. Besides the oil or electrical...
Ran across an article in the paper this weekend and had to pass it along. Seems that Oklahoma Governer Brad Henry just signed into law a bill that makes it a...
Wes wrote: Ran across an article in the paper this weekend and had to pass it along. Seems that Oklahoma Governer Brad Henry just signed into law a bill that...
... California, and ... In Arizona 3 feet of clearance is mandatory and 5 feet is recommended. Of course 99% of Arizona's motorists (including cops) appear to...
Dear All On the BBC 2 website there is poll: do bypasses work? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/vine/ Please spread it around so people can vote - it is about...
Dear Colin Good try but I fear that traffic congestion with clean fuel (hemp oil?) is hardly better than the same thing with dirty fuel given the unsustainable...
... Right. It is well known among civil engineers (after countless examples in the past century) that more road capacity leads to more cars on that road. The...
David A de Gruyl
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Jul 5, 2006 12:42 pm
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Well, maybe for a few days. Sold the family van (GMC Safari AWD) last Monday! It might only last a few days, but I'll take what I can get. Even though she...
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0705-26.htm worth a thoughtful read... The crux of Washington's problem -- repeated in every major city across America --...
I noticed there is no CarFree community on Orkut (part of google) Can I create one? I'm looking for other environment communities there, found some listed...
... Please understand that there is only 3 miles of breathable air over your head. With 1- billion cars and growing, all the fuels being burned (whether bio,...
Lauren, When I first saw "Dances with Cars", I thought you were pro-car, until I read this post. Okay, so you and I bicycle around most of the time. Do you...
I found the same problem with Frappr. Although I joined about 30 groups, CarFree was not mentioned. Tonight I searched for a CarFree group, and got 2...
Actually I believe the correct url of this Monbiot article is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1801506,00.html (Incidentally all his articles...
We rented the DVD, "Syriana", today. It's an interesting movie about the complex ties of the Middle East to corrupt Western business and politics. It's based...
A grim and instructive read - that piece by Ted Conover It set off some grim musing on the unshared condition. I came across a book the other day - Jan...
... The movie was engaging, but I suggest reading Robert Baer's non-fiction book _Sleeping with the Devil_ instead. He does a good job of explaining the...
... onto Mass Transit, Bicycles, etc.? <<< Since I became a bicycle commuter in 1976, I have searched fruitlessly for the magic words that would inspire...
Sigh ... they still don't get it... ... tried to alter some habits to save fossil fuels: changing light fixtures in his homes, for example. He owns a hybrid...
Although I'm not ready to do cartwheels in my backyard, I'm somewhat encouraged by Brokaw's comments. If a couple million SUV-driving Americans follow his...
... << Although I'm not ready to do cartwheels in my backyard, I'm somewhat encouraged by Brokaw's comments. >> Me. too. I mean, a hybrid is better than an...
Curtailment of the use of oil, or fossil fuels in general, is not likely to keep any more C02 from being released into the atmosphere, then would be otherwise....
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